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Date of Birth
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30-November-1907
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Place of Birth
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Créteil
(Val-de-Marne, ÃŽle-de-France, France)
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Nationality
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United States of America, France
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Also know as
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Jacques Martin Barzun
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Profession
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Historian, Critic, Writer, Professor
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Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He wrote on a range of topics as broad as baseball and classical music, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education.
Barzun's Teacher in America was an important influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United States. He published over 40 books, won the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was knighted into the French Legion of Honor. His New York Times best-selling magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present, was published in 2000, when he was 93 years of age.
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